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Huw’s second appearance will be on March 10 with his first been watched by his family and friends – although not Huw himself!

“I actually wasn’t fee on the night to watch it but my parents did” he said.

“I watched it later and recorded it and put it on USB stick to give to my nan who lives in Kent.

“I think my parents are really happy for me because what I want to do and are pleased for me.

“A couple of my friends did not know I was going to be on the programme and they were watching it anyway. When they saw me come up and sent me lots of Snapchats about it.”

Huw’s videos can range from, seven cheap ways to add nutrients to your soil, to how to prune blackcurrant bushes – but his budding TV career will have to take a back seat for the next three months.

“At the moment I have said I can’t put as many videos as I have my A-levels and they are my priority,” said Huw.

He will be back after his exams where he plans to go full time with his channel.

With Huw able to dedicate all his time to the channel it is likely he will be able to keep up the incredible numbers he has been seeing on his site in recent months. His recent short videos on Facebook have been particularly successful.

Huw said: “Some of my old videos are absolutely terrible so I am going through and gradually replacing them.

“I have re-done one of my old videos which was about growing peas.

“I have noticed that people have been doing really well with 60 second recipes so I put up a 60 second video about peas.

“It went viral and got 3.9 million in just over a week. My facebook page went from 3,000 likes to 40,000 likes in just one week.

“You are not able to monetise the Facebook videos and make money but they are a great way of raising awareness.

It is not just his channel that he wants to raise awareness for. Huw has a passion for helping people understand where their food comes from.

“I want to work to make food systems more sustainable” he said. “We are very dependant on food from abroad. There is a story behind out food and we don’t know it anymore.

“At my school, Llandovery College we are growing food and now will be sustainable in salad from late April all the way through to November. “